A survey of parcels in the Judge Magney State Park area would wrap up some glaring discrepancies from the past, but it could take 200 feet off the edges or corners of some people’s properties. County surveyor Wayne Hensche asked the county board Tuesday, October 13, 2009 to schedule a public hearing to discuss the possibility of a new survey of the area.
“This is really the last big hole on the east side of the county,” Hensche said. “The last licensed survey in that area was Axel Berglund in 1930.” People have been asking him to survey the area for the last 15 years.
Hensche expects some discrepancies in the corners of some of the sections in that area.
Private properties in the proposed survey area total 2,150 acres, and the cost to those property owners would be about $30 per acre. Thestate has no money to pay for its portion of the survey, Hensche said.
The board discussed the issue of fairness in the cost to property owners, some who own a little land and some who own a lot. Hensche said he has given some of his time away on the surveying he has done in the area. In the last five years, he has fixed 85% of Hovland’s “serious” survey problems, he said.
A public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, November 10 at the Cook County Courthouse.
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